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Dispatches from the State of Jefferson
My family and I have a long-standing tradition of taking one summer road trip a year, and last week we took the opportunity to travel up to the good old State of Jefferson — because seriously, what’s...
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Review of Liberal Archipelago
I recently read Liberal Archipelago by Chandran Kukathas. It is the best academic defense of exit as a moral principle, articulating a vision of society as a large number of sub-societies where people...
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Secession lagniappe
Reason has a video on the Honduran ZEDEs out this week, produced by Ross Kenyon and Zach Weissmueller: Mark Johanson in CNN on micronations: Many like Cruickshank credit Ernest Hemingway’s younger...
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Sometimes smaller is worse
While I am a huge fan of decentralization, it is important to be cognizant of the potential negative effects. Proponents of decentralization argue that local governments are more responsive to the...
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Secession lagniappe
Groundskeeper Willie would like a word: Here’s Ewan Watt over at TheDC on why free-marketers should support Scottish independence. Sort of related, what if journalists covered Scotland like they cover...
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Secession lagniappe: Here’s hoping for an ‘aye’ today
If it’s a ‘no,’ the referendum has put secession on the map. And if, as Tim Stanley thinks is more likely at this point, they vote to split, may it move more towards Singapore-of-the-North than...
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Secession lagniappe
Hope you’re not getting tired of these, but there’s a lot to keep up with. In the wake of Scotland’s vote for dependence this week, let’s revisit the Portland Declaration on subsidiarity. I’m a sucker...
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Secession lagniappe
Needed a week off after Scotland, but we’re back and more seditious than ever. For starters, if you haven’t read this, do: Devolution—meaning the decentralization of power—is the geopolitical...
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Secession lagniappe
Don Devine on the secession trend: American hegemony properly controlled thus assists world peace, and secession could threaten international and domestic liberty. Still, secession in its tamed form of...
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Secession lagniappe
Native Planet on Hawaiian sovereignty: The Obama administration is abandoning plans to treat the OHA as a tribe, but is apparently still planning to screw over sovereignty supporters: Because of the...
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Secession lagniappe
Journalists don’t really know how to talk about secession: For example, look at how The Root is describing the proposed incorporation of St. George in East Baton Rouge Parish: The rich, white folk who...
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Secession lagniappe
Catalonia’s unofficial referendum has 81 percent voting for independence according to preliminary reports, though many pro-Madrid groups boycotted it. The government also moved in a significant amount...
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Should Google run a city?
The Freeman was nice enough to publish my piece asking whether Google should run a city. Would you want to live in a private city? No? What if Google were running the city? Would that change your mind?...
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Private cities and public places
Have you heard the old libertarian joke? It goes like this. Should heroin sales to minors be legal on public sidewalks? The libertarian responds, why are there public sidewalks? The libertarian...
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Secession lagniappe
Starting to dig into the books that someone has very kindly bought me off my Amazon wish list. I’m a couple of chapters into Felix Morley’s only novel, Gumption Island, which is modeled — the map on...
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Adam Gurri on telescopic morality
From Front Porch Republic: There is one version of the history of modern media that is a story primarily about a drug, developed to make its users feel anger with delightful intensity. Refinement of...
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Secession lagniappe
Happy 152nd anniversary of the Battle of Fredericksburg! Here’s a picture I took on the way to the reenactment two years ago: Sorry it’s been a while since the last one of these, been busy with other...
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Exit and human nature: The case of Llano del Rio
Going out to Llano Llano del Rio Try to find utopia In the stucco grids and the tumbleweeds You got to love that pear blossom It’ll kill you just like possum Have you been to the rock foundations?...
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The Benedict Option for the underground
The last bit from David Keenan’s piece, “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” in the January issue of The Wire: “We need a new art that is almost sociopathic in its evasion, in its willingness not to be...
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The future evolution of proprietary cities
We live in the era of urbanization. Currently 54% of the World’s population lives in cities, up from 34% in 1960. Such urbanization combined with political decentralization has led to the increasing...
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